449The Mineral Industry 
of Mississippi 
This chapter has been prepared under a cooperative agreement between the
Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, and the Mississippi Geological,
Economic, and Topographical Survey for collecting information on all minerals
except fuels. 
 
 
By Nicholas A. Kendall1 and William H. Moore2 
 
 
 
Value of Mississippi mineral production increased to $217 million—its
highest since 1963. Mineral fuels—petroleum, natural gas, and natural
gas liquids— represented 84 percent of the total value and accounted
for the $6 million increase in mineral production value over that of 1966.
Total value of metals and nonmetals remained virtually unchanged. 
 Comprehensive studies initiated in 1963 for overall development of water
resources of the Pearl and Pascagoula River Basins 
continued. The Bartlesville Office of Mineral Resources of the Federal Bureau
of Mines transmitted to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers a report entitled,
"Mineral Resouces and Industry of the Pascagoula River Basin, Mississippi
and Alabama." 
 
 1 Petroleum engineer, Bartlesville Office of Mineral Resources, Bureau of
Mines, Bartlesyule, Okia. 
 2 Director, Mississippi Geological, Economic, and Topographical Survey,
Jackson, Miss. 
 
Table 1.—Mineral production in Mississippi 1 
 
1966 
 
 
1967 
Mineral 
 
 
 
—______________ 
. 
Quantity 
Value 
(thousands) 
Quantity 
 Value (thousands) 
Clays thousand short tons_..Natural gas million cubic feet.. 
Natural gas liquids: 
Natural gasoline and cycle products 
 thousand gallons...   LP gases do..... 
Petroleum (crude) thousand 42-gallon barrels. - 
Sand and gravel thousand short tons... 
Stone (includes shell) do_... 
Value of items that cannot be disclosed: 
1,727 
156,652 
 
 
23,765 
18,621 
55,227 
12,675 
2 1,532 
$7,489 
27,257 
 
 
 1,483 
987 
146, 353 
13,563 
21,641 
 1,654 
139,497 
 
 
17,939 
17,794 
57,147 
14,039 
 1,879 
$7,852 
24,133 
 
 
 1,167 
 1,085 
155, 726 
15,485 
 2,055 
Cement, iron ore, lime, magnesia, and stone (1966)_ - - 
XX 
12,587 
XX 
9, 507 
Total                                   Total in 1957-59 constant dollars
              
XX 
XX 
211,360 
205,482 
XX 
XX 
217,010 
P 209,200 
 P Preliminary. XX Not applicable. 
 ' Production as measured by mine shipments, sales, or marketable production
(including consumption by producers). 
 ' Excludes certain stones included in "Value of items that cannot be disclosed."